Kendra > Kendra's Quotes

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“I don’t feel very much like Pooh today," said Pooh.

"There there," said Piglet. "I’ll bring you tea and honey until you do.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“Ben was different. He’d told her she was amazing. No
one had ever said that before. Oh, they’d said “conscientious”
or “driven” or “intelligent.” But not amazing. That one word
hung on her heart like a talisman.”
― Kendra C. Highley, Finding Perfect

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“So you’re here to pitch yourself as a boyfriend?” His lip
twitched again. “Or as a math tutor?”

“Both, I guess.”
― Kendra C. Highley, Finding Perfect

“It's not like there's a law against flying."

"Yes there is. The law of gravity.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“I reckon if you care for someone and you can't have their love, you can either be a spiteful bastard about it or you can try your damnedest to make sure they're going to find some happiness in the world.”
― Lindsay Buroker, Encrypted

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Everybody told me to be a man. Nobody told me how.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Twisted

“Why do you always answer questions with questions?”
“Why don’t you shut up and kiss me?”
She didn’t have to ask twice.”
― Kendra C. Highley, Matt Archer: Monster Hunter

“Waiting for the right people isn't going to get us where we want; we need to go out and find..." She groped for the right word. A mission? A project? A job?

"Trouble?" Sicarius suggested.

"An endeavor that will help the city and prove to the emperor that we're undeserving of the bounties on our heads and we're invaluable resources to his regime."

"Trouble," Sicarius said.”
― Lindsay Buroker

“I am one of billions. I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form. I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on to be other things someday and I will be free.”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“It was like some mad scientist threw a bunch of DNA into a blender and this is what came out. What the heck could it be? Was it some kind of alien? A scientific experiment gone horribly wrong? Did we have a Dr. Frankenstein living in Billings? Seriously, the creature looked like a resurrected Wookiee made from spare parts.”
― Kendra C. Highley, Matt Archer: Monster Hunter

“Sicarius,” Amaranthe said quietly.

He bent low, eyes toward her face.

With the men laughing and talking up front, and the lorry clacking and chugging as the stack billowed black smoke into the air, this was scarcely a romantic spot. But maybe it did not matter. His response would not likely be to wrap her in his arms and kiss her. Whatever response he gave — if he gave one at all — she anticipated it would sting.

“I…uhm…” Amaranthe forced herself to meet his gaze. “I love you.”

A long moment passed. She did not remember breathing.

Sicarius nodded infinitesimally. “I know.”
― Lindsay Buroker, Dark Currents

“What did you find?”
Uncle Mike clamped his hands to the steering wheel. “Turns out monsters are real.”
― Kendra C. Highley, Matt Archer: Monster Hunter

“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“What name shall I call you?”
“Addie’s fine. I know who she is.”
“A mouthy little alchemist?”
“See, you know her, too.”
― Becca Andre, The Final Formula

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“If one can't be trusted in love, one can't be trusted in anything. Some things can't be forgiven.”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Kiss of Deception

“So…do you know how I feel about you
now? Because I’ll say it a thousand different ways if I have
to.”

“And I’d love to hear them all.”
― Kendra C. Highley, Finding Perfect

“For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss